What’s not to like?

Stop beating around the bush(strangely appropriate there). Please tell us what you really think !

Ron Paul needs to be the next President of the United States of America.

I must take issue with Borgman’s Editorial Page cartoon (June 9) that showed an elephant sitting in front of 10 bowls of vanilla ice cream. It was obviously meant to convey the idea that all of the candidates are both uniformly similar and bland

This is not the case regarding Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) who served 5 terms in Congress in the 70’s and 80’s and is currently serving his 10th term having been back in the US House since 1997. In the interim Dr. Paul (an OB/GYN physician and former pilot and flight surgeon in the USAF) was the 1988 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate and still holds a Lifetime Membership in that party.

Dr. Paul has a voting record in Congress that is consistently and strictly according to the US Constitution. He never votes for a bill that goes beyond what the Constitution allows the federal government (which is most of what the Congress does these days) and is known as Dr. No for this reason.

Dr. Paul has never voted for increased taxes, an unbalanced budget, going to war (although he did vote to allow the military to go after Al Queda following the 9-11 attacks) and he has voted against the Iraq war, the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act (which stripped us of the right of Habeas Corpus) and any and all increases in the number or budget of any government agencies not expressly authorized by the Constitution.

Dr. Paul has not accepted any increase in pay since returning to Congress. He returns a large portion of his allotment for staff and office expenses each year to the US Treasury. No lobbyist ever darkens his door as they know that they are wasting their time on the Honorable Dr. Paul (one of the few if not the only Member of Congress deserving of that Title).

As if that weren’t enough, Dr. Paul inspires people by speaking from the heart the message of freedom and liberty, Constitutional limitations on government, free marketsand spreading the blessings of freedom by example, friendship and trade, not weapons and war. This message is simple and compelling. It gives Americans hope for the future and pride in themselves and their country.

Borgman is dead wrong. Dr. Paul is no bowl of the same old vanilla the rest of the crowd is serving up. Dr. Paul is not just another politician, but rather a statesman, the likes of which is all but extinct this day and age.

Please go to RonPaul2008.com for more information on this rarity in American Politics.

Steven A. RosileWichita, Kansas

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That consensus is widely held throughout the country, as well as on both sides of the aisle.

But Who Was Right — Rudy or Ron?Fri May 18, 3:00 AM ETIt was the decisive moment of the South Carolina debate.

?Hearing Rep. Ron Paul recite the reasons for Arab and Islamic resentment of the United States, including 10 years of bombing and sanctions that brought death to thousands of Iraqis after theTop of Form 1???????Bottom of Form 1Gulf War, Rudy Giuliani broke format and exploded:”That’s really an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of 9-11, that we invited the attack because we were attackingTop of Form 2???????Bottom of Form 2Iraq. I don’t think I have ever heard that before, and I have heard some pretty absurd explanations for Sept. 11.”I would ask the congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us what he really meant by it.”The applause for Rudy’s rebuke was thunderous — the soundbite of the night and best moment of Rudy’s campaign.After the debate, on Fox News’ “Hannity and Colmes,” came one of those delicious moments on live television. As Michael Steele, GOP spokesman, was saying that Paul should probably be cut out of future debates, the running tally of votes by Fox News viewers was showing Ron Paul, with 30 percent, the winner of the debate.Brother Hannity seemed startled and perplexed by the votes being text-messaged in the thousands to Fox News saying Paul won, Romney was second, Rudy third and McCain far down the track at 4 percent.”I would ask the congressman to … tell us what he meant,” said Rudy.A fair question and a crucial question.When Ron Paul said the 9-11 killers were “over here because we are over there,” he was not excusing the mass murderers of 3,000 Americans. He was explaining the roots of hatred out of which the suicide-killers came.Lest we forget,Top of Form 3???????Bottom of Form 3Osama bin Laden was among the mujahideen whom we, in the Reagan decade, were aiding when they were fighting to expel the Red Army fromTop of Form 4???????Bottom of Form 4Afghanistan. We sent them Stinger missiles, Spanish mortars, sniper rifles. And they helped drive the Russians out.What Ron Paul was addressing was the question of what turned the allies we aided into haters of the United States. Was it the fact that they discovered we have freedom of speech or separation of church and state? Do they hate us because of who we are? Or do they hate us because of what we do?Osama bin Laden in his declaration of war in the 1990s said it was U.S. troops on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia, U.S. bombing and sanctions of a crushed Iraqi people, and U.S. support of Israel’s persecution of the Palestinians that were the reasons he and his mujahideen were declaring war on us.Elsewhere, he has mentioned Sykes-Picot, the secret British-French deal that double-crossed the Arabs who had fought for their freedom alongside Lawrence of Arabia and were rewarded with a quarter century of British-French imperial domination and humiliation.Almost all agree that, horrible as 9-11 was, it was not anarchic terror. It was political terror, done with a political motive and a political objective.What does Rudy Giuliani think the political motive was for 9-11?Was it because we are good and they are evil? Is it because they hate our freedom? Is it that simple?Ron Paul says Osama bin Laden is delighted we invaded Iraq.Does the man not have a point? The United States is now tied down in a bloody guerrilla war in the Middle East and increasingly hated in Arab and Islamic countries where we were once hugely admired as the first and greatest of the anti-colonial nations. Does anyone think that Osama is unhappy with what is happening to us in Iraq?Of the 10 candidates on stage in South Carolina, Dr. Paul alone opposed the war. He alone voted against the war. Have not the last five years vindicated him, when two-thirds of the nation now agrees with him that the war was a mistake, and journalists and politicians left and right are babbling in confession, “If I had only known then what I know now …”Rudy implied that Ron Paul was unpatriotic to suggest the violence against us out of the Middle East may be in reaction to U.S. policy in the Middle East. Was President Hoover unpatriotic when, the day after Pearl Harbor, he wrote to friends, “You and I know that this continuous putting pins in rattlesnakes finally got this country bitten.”Pearl Harbor came out of the blue, but it also came out of the troubled history of U.S.-Japanese relations going back 40 years. Hitler’s attack on Poland was naked aggression. But to understand it, we must understand what was done at Versailles — after the Germans laid down their arms based on Wilson’s 14 Points. We do not excuse — but we must understand.Ron Paul is no TV debater. But up on that stage in Columbia, he was speaking intolerable truths. Understandably, Republicans do not want him back, telling the country how the party blundered into this misbegotten war.By all means, throw out of the debate the only man who was right from the beginning on Iraq.To find out more aboutTop of Form 5???????Bottom of Form 5Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at http://www.creators.com.

Reagan even went so far as to trade arms for hostages. Of course, in his most earnest of speeches, Reagan always denounced negotiating with terrorists (unless it was to get his butt into the White House).

I don’t hear the Republicans pull that out of Reagan’s resume for all the world to see. Wonder why?

So, actually, did Reagan cause the current Iraq/Iran mess? Could be, could be.

That’s 7 more than would have died if congress had done what the people had voted them to do.

They seem to outgrown their “civil service status.”

We don’t want the so-called “war” in Iraq, so we’re left with their reasoning that there is little that can be done about that.

I believe that’s called arrogance and just who in the hell do they think they are?

It’s time to bring the troops home now and if the “bogeyman” follows them back, we’ll just deal with that unlikely scenario if and when it happens.

In the meanwhile our sons and daughters will stop dying for government’s nonsense and idiotic reasoning.

Find some other way to strut your self proclaimed importance.

Your procrastination is tiresome and bloody.

How big?

The nation’s 31.6 million fereral, state and local government workers form a large, growing, and well-compensated class in society. Fereral, state and local workers earned $36 per hour in wages and benefits in 2005, on average, compared to $24 per hour for U.S. private-sector workers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Summary, published December 9, 2005.

The IRS doesn’t “steal” 1/3 of my check. They take about 1/6th of it to pay for nice things like highways, the military, education, cops, firfighters and- YES- even the military you conservatives love to support (as long as you don’t have to pay anything) so much. In other words, the money pays for things that keep the USA from being a third world shithole like Hati or Mexico.

I confess I don’t know anything about Ron Paul, but he sounds like someone who bears watching. And I’d love to see both Dems and repubs tossed out in a presidential election.

I worked on the Perot campaign at the state and county level. I could support someone who’s independent, even if they have to hide under the classification of “republican”.

I am an AMERICAN not a Republican, Democrat etc… many of you don’t seem to get that, you let others define what you are!

Here is the part that will shock you silly people that think us AMERICANS are too stupid to know the difference between Ron Paul and George Bush!

Well I have news for you, we are NOT, just because Bush is a liar, doesn’t have anything to do with Dr. Paul, proof of that is the simple fact that Dr. Paul is hated by the bush patrol…….but guess what he is LOVED by us AMERICANS and for that matter, Many people around the world who are waiting for US, the United States of America to come back and lead by example like we used to many years ago!

Do you like the IRS stealing 1/3 of your check, then vote for Hillary, maybe you can get that up to 50% of your PAYCHECK!

Let me be clear, I have NEVER voted and I am this time, if I have to join the hated Republicans to get Dr. Paul in, then so be it……..oh you think I am alone………….I think not, are you not paying attention that us AMERICANS are about to take back our Country, if you don’t want to help, that is fine, but you had better stay out of our way, because this time WE ARE SERIOUS!